In order for a real estate broker to list a property for rent in the local Multiple Listing Service (MLS) it must have a...
One of the biggest mistakes Chicago renters make in their apartment search is looking only online and only on Craigslist. Take your search offline...
Chicago-based apartment rental website domu has written about “why you should ditch craigslist for your apartment search” and tallied more than 19,000 new apartment...
Over the weekend I noticed rental services advertising 2-bedroom, 2-bath lofts at Cobbler Square on Craigslist at prices ranging from $2,550 to $2,610. The...
Are you looking for an apartment in the Loop, West Loop or South Loop? Do you have a deep craving for painful, time-wasting, risk-fraught...
The Streeter, a 48-story, 481-unit apartment tower at 345 E Ohio St in Streeterville, was still in lease-up mode and at 56% occupancy when...
The ad copy at Craigslist for a Wicker Park for sale by owner condo contains these amusing assertions: Sun Filled Vintage Condo In Historical...
If you like having lots of roommates you might want to check out Stone Soup Ashland, a cooperative living arrangement in a 100-year old...
From a Craigslist roommates ad: when shit comes your way, you make doo doo. . ..so I have 2 rooms for rent that are...
A duplex-up at 1623 W Barry Ave is listed in the MLS at $2,500 a month. Coldwell Banker’s Jennifer Witt has the listing. domu...
Earlier today I spent about half an hour searching Craigslist apartment ads for apartment rental / finder / locator services –we call them bedbugs...
Anyone who’s searched for a Chicago apartment within the past year knows that the apartment locator servicees have trashed Craigslist with many thousands of...
Last Saturday we suggested that an apartment locator (a/k/a bedbug) by the name of Ginger Summers quit spamming Craigslist with thousands of repetitive ads....
Management companies, individual property owners and legitimate real estate brokers can quickly and easily clean up the mess that the apartment locator services that...
Between midnight yesterday and 8:42 this morning, an apartment rental bedbug by the name of Ginger Summers placed 962 housing for rent ads on...
Chicago’s apartment locators – we call them bedbugs – engage in wholesale bait-and-switch advertising on Craigslist. When you see enough rental service ads, you’d...
Back in August of 2009 we reported that apartment locator bedbugs (we used to call them maggots) were beginning to swarm the Roosevelt Collection...
Almost everyone who has searched for an apartment in Chicago recently knows that bedbugs – also known as apartment rental services and finders –...
Some of you may be familiar wth my long-standing practice of referring to apartment rental services as maggots. I’ve decided that reference is unfair...
